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Screening and Q&A —The Race Epidemic: Resurgence of the Yellow Peril

2021年10月14日

FREE ($20 Suggested Donation) This screening is currently SOLD OUT. If you would like to be added to a wait list to be alerted if tickets become available or are interested in seating in the overflow screening space, please email publicprograms@janm.org. Join Representative Mark Takano, CA State Treasurer John Chiang, and John Kobara (JANM Board of Governors) in a conversation emcee'd by Fox 11 An...

2018 Day of Remembrance—The Civil Liberties Act of 1988: The Victory and the Unfinished Business

2018年02月17日

PAY WHAT YOU WISH JANM is proud to present the 2018 Day of Remembrance in partnership with Go For Broke National Education Center, Japanese American Citizens League–Pacific Southwest District, Manzanar Committee, Nikkei for Civil Rights and Redress, Nikkei Progressives, OCA–Greater Los Angeles, and Progressive Asian Network for Action (PANA). In addition to marking the 76th anniversary of the signing ...

"Hinamatsuri" Afternoon Tea

2014年03月01日

Mothers, daughters, ladies (and men in their lives) of all ages are welcome to bring their dolls and join us for afternoon tea at the Chado Tea Room to celebrate Hinamatsuri. Known as Doll’s Festival or Girl’s Day, Hinamatsuri is a special day in Japan where families celebrate the health and happiness of their young daughters. Hina dolls will be on display for the duration of the event, only for event attendees. ...

Beyond the Bad and the Ugly: Stereotypes and Asian American Pop Culture - A Summit

2013年03月23日

Tickets for the event can be purchased here. JANM MEMBERS: Members receive $5 off of their tickets! Please contact agiffen@janm.org for your discount code. In 1914, Sessue Hayakawa became the first Asian American actor to break through on the silver screen, appearing in movie pioneer Thomas Ince’s silent classic The Typhoon, and launching a career as one of the most popular and well-paid stars in the nascent Ho...

TRAVELING EXHIBITION HONORS ARAB AMERICANS IN MILITARY, PEACE CORPS, DIPLOMATIC CORPS

2013年02月08日

Los Angeles’ Arab American community spotlighted Los Angeles, CA, February 6, 2013—Arab Americans have been an integral part of the United States of America since its inception, contributing to our society in myriad ways, including representing and defending American ideals through public service. Long the target of negative stereotypes, Arab Americans even found themselves dubbed “guilty by association” follo...

STORY OF BUILDING OF JAPANESE HOSPITAL IN 1920s TO BE DISCUSSED APRIL 11

2010年03月27日

The story of the Japanese community’s fight to get better medical care in the 1920s by going to court to gain the right to incorporate their own hospital will be recounted in the public program, "Japanese Hospital: Caring for the Pre-War Nikkei Community", organized by the Little Tokyo Historical Society and Discover Nikkei and set for Sunday, April 11, at 2 p.m. at the Japanese American National Museum. The program ...

UNION BANK OF CA. CEO MASAAKI TANAKA NAMED TO MUSEUM BOARD OF GOVERNORS

2008年08月28日

The Board of Trustees of the Japanese American National Museum today announced the appointment of Mr. Masaaki Tanaka, President and Chief Executive Officer of UnionBanCal Corp. and its primary subsidiary, Union Bank of California, N.A., to the institution’s Board of Governors, effective immediately. The Trustees held their quarterly meetings at the National Museum in Little Tokyo on August 1 and 2, 2008. Members o...

A Time of Innocence

2007年10月20日

Author Sanae Kawaguchi in conversation with Art Hansen Published in Japan in 2005, A Time of Innocence tells the poignant story of Japanese-American families who escaped the West Coast during the brief period of "voluntary evacuation" and made their dangerous way into the interior to avoid confinement in the government camps. This fictional account of the families' hardships, travails, and triumphs captures an emoti...

Day of Remembrance

2002年02月16日

Day of Remembrance (DOR) is the Japanese American community's annual commemoration of President Roosevelt's signing of Executive Order 9066 and the World War II exclusion and incarceration of Japanese Americans and Japanese Latin Americans. This year's observance is particularly noteworthy, as 2002 marks the 60th anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066. The National Museum, NCRR, the Pacific Southwest Dist...

Japanese American National Museum To Feature Paintings By Henry Sugimoto In First Retrospective Exhibition

2001年03月24日

The first retrospective exhibition of paintings by Henry Sugimoto (1900-1990) will open on March 24, 2001 at the Japanese American National Museum in the heart of the Little Tokyo Historic District in Los Angeles. Henry Sugimoto: Painting an American Experience is a survey of Sugimoto’s paintings as well as an examination of the Japanese American experience as seen through the work of an artist whose life and art w...